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Re:“People have asked if we'll adopt this system for WhatsAp... by jpmoral on Friday August 06, 2021 @11:11PM (#28095355)
Why does the elimination have to be 100% and the privacy erosion be 0 for it to be worthwhile?

To be clear I'm not saying that Apple are right to do this or that there aren't privacy concerns. What I am saying is that those thresholds seem unreasonable.

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Re:“People have asked if we'll adopt this system for WhatsAp... by BobbyJo on Saturday August 07, 2021 @06:12AM (#28097387)
Because that's the only way an individual's value system wouldn't come into play. If it's anything less than completely fixed and anything more than no erosion of privacy, then it just depends on how important privacy is to the person. I personally think privacy is super important, and it would take massive changes in how society and our government work before I was willing to give it up for just about anything.
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